California files lawsuit to remain a National Security Risk

[rangerrebew]

California files lawsuit to remain a National Security Risk
Charles Rotter   January 22, 2020   
 

By Ronald Stein

Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California

California has chosen to be the only state in America that imports most of its oil needs from foreign countries and relies on the U.S. Navy to pay a steep price keeping an aircraft carrier with escorts on station to deter attacks on oil tanker traffic operating in and around the Persian Gulf.

The state of California is suing President Donald Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in an attempt to block the opening of more than 1 million acres of public land to oil and gas drilling, including hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

Conservation groups sued BLM over a California fracking plan that would allow drilling and fracking on public lands across eight counties in California’s Central Valley and Central Coast: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/22/california-files-lawsuit-to-remain-a-national-security-risk/

[Wingnut]

Misleading at best.  As much as I hate cali here is the real reason for the tanker escorts:

Operation Sentinel is the emerging U.S. Central Command plan to keep merchant traffic in the Middle East moving and safe amidst the ongoing disputes between Washington and Europe and Iran, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Wednesday.

“The key issues are two-fold: one is maintaining freedom of navigation in the Strait [of Hormuz], the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The second is deterring provocative action from Iran.

[PeteS in CA]

... relies on the U.S. Navy to pay a steep price keeping an aircraft carrier with escorts on station to deter attacks on oil tanker traffic operating in and around the Persian Gulf.

1. Other states besides CA would not benefit from the oil market (=prices!) not being disrupted? Seriously?

2. While San Diego Naval Base was founded (1921) some 13 years after oil was first discovered in the ME (1908), I suspect tanker traffic began much later than the founding of the naval base in San Diego. So the purpose of the base is not Persian Gulf oil traffic, mmmmmmkay.

If one is going to criticize California stupidity, don't be stupider in so doing.

[darroll]

California files lawsuit to remain a National Security Risk
Charles Rotter   January 22, 2020   
 

By Ronald Stein

Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California

California has chosen to be the only state in America that imports most of its oil needs from foreign countries and relies on the U.S. Navy to pay a steep price keeping an aircraft carrier with escorts on station to deter attacks on oil tanker traffic operating in and around the Persian Gulf.

The state of California is suing President Donald Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in an attempt to block the opening of more than 1 million acres of public land to oil and gas drilling, including hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

Conservation groups sued BLM over a California fracking plan that would allow drilling and fracking on public lands across eight counties in California’s Central Valley and Central Coast: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/22/california-files-lawsuit-to-remain-a-national-security-risk/

That is all cali knows. tax and Sue.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I believe the author nailed it correctly that California, in purposely making itself oil-import dependent, and in denying fraccing on its lands and seeking to prevent it as well on federal lands, is acting counter to national security interests.

Those interests include the minimization of military security presence within the Persian Gulf oil theater.  In seeking to ban the feds from more US production from federal lands, it increases the need for this country for imported petroleum, some of which comes from the ME.

The shame in all this is California is blessed with some of the largest conventional oil fields ever discovered in the lower 48 (4 of the top 10).  Huge quantities of crude production have occurred there and large amounts remain, if permitted to produce efficiently.

It should be aggravating for any US citizen, and most especially any California citizen, to see this potential not to be recognized so our country can lessen the influence of OPEC and the volatile ME.